Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Those who stand at the threshold of life always waiting for the right time to change are like the man who stands… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
There was still plenty of water in the basement, and I felt it soaking me from the knees on down. If someone… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The cries of the wounded had much diminished now, and as we staggered down the road, the reason was only too apparent,… — Edwin Campion Vaughan Copy Share Image
Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, "Halt!" A creed is… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Clean air and water, a diversity of animal and plant species, soil and mineral resources, and predictable weather are annuities that will… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
I consider myself a general practitioner. I do electronic things. I do toys and water things, mechanical stuff. I'm very, very flexible. — Lonnie Johnson Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, nature is very much a now-you-see-it, now-you-don't affair. A fish flashes, then dissolves in the water before my eyes like so… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The wisdom or the essence of Guru Tattwa is a balance. Like when you maintain a plant, if you do not give… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Very often, gleams of light come in a few minutes' sleeplessness, in a second perhaps; you must fix them. To entrust them… — Antonin Sertillanges Copy Share Image
I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Water is commonly regarded as the 'solvent of life,' since our bodies are 70% water. All other vertebrates, invertebrates, microbes, and plants… — Peter Agre Copy Share Image
Plasma seems to have the kinds of properties one would like for life. It's somewhat like liquid water--unpredictable and thus able to… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“I'm all dressed in my new clothes," Luis's proud but muffled voice comes through the pillow. "The nenas won't be able to… — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
Communism, my friend, is more than Marxism, just as Catholicism is more than the Roman Curia. There is a mystique as well… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
There's less mystery in the sea than there is in fresh water. If you look at television there's lots of documentaries on… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
The land, the earth God gave to man for his home ... should never be the possession of any man, corporation, (or)… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Writers dream of sentences that sail through the waters of thought. We try to control their shape and size, and we struggle… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
Wars aren't stopped by fighting wars, any more than you can fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. You fight… — Colman McCarthy Copy Share Image
Sure, we've had our fair share of ups and downs, but I don't know if we've had more than any other rock… — Carl Wilson Copy Share Image
Given that you're meeting a sloth, that feeling is generally joy, excitement, warmth, and love. What do those feelings smell like, you… — Ann Burton Copy Share Image
The word love carries the same vibration in any language. You probably know this guy, you probably had dinner with him yesterday.… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
I abhor anything that constitutes torture. Water-boarding, its perfectly clear to me it is torture. I never supported extraordinary rendition to torture,… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
The dizzy rapture of starving. The power of needing nothing. By force of will I make myself the impossible sprite who lives… — Kathryn Harrison Copy Share Image
The moon carries the masks of meningitis into bedrooms, fills the wombs of pregnant women with cold water and, as soon as… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
Tears are perhaps 1% water but 99% emotions. They contain hurt, pain, sorrow, disappointment, sadness… so cry sometimes and let go of… — Rita Zahara Copy Share Image
He goes along just as a water lily Gentle on the surface of his thoughts his body floats Unweighed down by passion… — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
In a couple of decades you have half of the wells that are drilled right now, and you're talking about numbers in… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
My family had a membership to the Riverside Yacht Club where my brother, Sandy, learned to sail, and I competed in local… — Dorothy Hamill Copy Share Image
For thirty years, Isreal has been highjacking ships in international waters, killing people, taking hostages, bringing them to Israel, putting them in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
By holding the intention of peace towards water, by thinking, speaking and acting with the intention of peace towards water, water can… — Masaru Emoto Copy Share Image
The city is as large as Seville or Cordova; its streets, I speak of the principal ones, are very wide and straight;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A hero. You want to be one of those rare human beings who make history, rather than merely watch it flow around… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Those waters which leave the main stream either cannot reach the sea and disappear in inland or find a better place, a… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Carbon dioxide isn't the only greenhouse gas out there. Other substances, such as water vapor and nitrous oxide, also trap heat to… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
The thing about the oceans is there is the benefit of water clarity. You can see what's going on there, but a… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
I'm always trying to get in water. It is the life source. It's extremely easy to dehydrate working 14 hours a day… — Abigail Spencer Copy Share Image
He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Procrastination is illogical from every viewpoint. It is like the man who wanted to cross the stream, so he sat on the… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
The 'here' of Watts is pastel houses with window gratings in curly patterns. 'Here' is yard sales with bins full of stuffed… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
